Green Tea and Arthritis - Cause Swollen Feet?

by Marie
(Florida)

I bought a bag of bulk green tea from ebay. I took about 1.4 grams a day for an arthritic knee after an old work injury.

After 4 days, my feet were swollen.

I stop the tea and swelling went away. I need the green tea but now I am scared of drinking it? What do you think?

Answer:

Marie, green tea is supposed to be good for inflammation and arthritis, but in you case, I really am not so sure. Given that it causes you to have swollen feet, I would advise that you stay from it for a while.

Anyone has any other views or experience to share?

Julian

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Green Tea and Arthritis - Cause Swollen Feet?

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May 18, 2010
 Re: Green Tea and Swollen Feet
by: Anonymous

I recently starting having extremely swollen feet. I've never had this problem. And I've also recently started drinking a lot of green tea every day. In my case, I really think the tea is causing my problem, so you may be on to something.
Jul 24, 2010
 swollen feet
by: Anonymous

I, too, recently started to drink green tea in place of water and noticed my feet became swollen.

Trying to figure out the cause of swelling, I came to this website and after reading the comments have come to the conclusion it must be the tea. The days I drank a lot of tea are the days the swelling appeared. Consequently,it seems moderation is the key.
Aug 20, 2010
 Swollen feet
by: Anonymous

I drank brisk iced tea and i began to have swelling in the feet. I stop drinking it and it goes away.I don't know what causes it.
Aug 24, 2010
 Swellng and green tea
by: Anonymous

Oddly my knee was really swollen last week. Only thing different is I drank A LOT of Trader Joes unsweetened Green tea. Laid off it and swelling went down. Couldn't resist drinking it in the heat, and my knee ballooned up again!? Odd.
Sep 18, 2010
 Swollen feet
by: lino

After drinking 4 liters of ice tea a day without any other liquid drinks/water for a week now, I'm now suffering of a swollen foot.

This has happened to me a longtime ago but it is only now that I've concluded what caused it.

I only hope it wasn't because I love ice tea!
Sep 22, 2010
 Bottled Teas have a lot of sugar
by: SenchaKing

Real green tea is not Lipton that comes in 20oz bottle. That tea contains traces of real green tea or extracts but has a lot of bad artificial things in it.

Real green tea should be of a greenish color because this means that it has not yet oxidized and lost it's full nutritional value.

I have been drinking green tea for the past five to six years and here are some great teas. Many of these teas are found on this site.

Look below for more suggestions:

Sencha Green Tea- This is a generic name for everyday loose green tea or tea-bagged tea. This is also reasonably priced.

Gyokuro Green Tea- This is essentially sencha that has been shaded from the sea during the later stages of it's growing cycle.This causes the tea leafs to turn a very dark green.This tends to be sweeter than sencha and also costs more.

Tea-Bagged Teas- "Uncle Lee's Tea" from Walmart is decent because it is actually green and in a bag.

Trader Joe's green tea bags

Any made in japan "sencha" tea bags.

"Ito-En" bottled green tea beverages have small amounts of sugar and are made by a Japanese company
Jan 13, 2011
 Green Tea
by: Anonymous

Iam glad I found this website because I RECENTLY STARTED DRINKING GREEN TEA,OOLONG TEA AN CHAMOMILE TEA BECAUSE I SAW NIT ON DR.OZ.aT NIGHT TIME

I started having excessive itching on muy toes and they would swell. I am going to stop the tea n see if the swelling goes away.
Jun 24, 2011
 At last
by: Anonymous

Finally! I only drank green tea because I thought it was sooooo good for me.

When I would tell people that I thought it made me retain water; ie, feet and ankle swelling--they thought it wasn't the tea.

But when I would go away, and not drink the tea, the feet swelling would subside. Glad others share the problem. All of our systems are different!
Oct 07, 2011
 Tea & swollen feet
by: Anonymous

After several years of experiencing this swollen foot/feet I finally narrowed it down to whenever I would drink lots of tea.

I prefer Ice Tea and would literally drink a lot of it. When I lay off the swelling goes away. Now when I do breakdown and drink ANY tea caffine or decaf, green or any other variety this happens and it happens now after a couple of cups of tea/glasses or ice tea.

This is extremely annoying as I LOVE tea...I truly wonder WHY this occurs...but now after finding these articles I don't feel like a nut trying to match the swelling foot/feet (generally it is only my left foot)to ingesting of tea.

I have an rx for lasic to counteract these side effects. I try my best to stay with water.
Nov 07, 2011
 Green Tea
by: Fast Eddie

Nov.7, 2011: I have noticed that when I drink a lot of green tea my ankle begins to swell. I am only drinking green tea twice a week!
Dec 03, 2011
 Yikes, DoMatcha, I never would have imagined it
by: Deaniegirl

I was drinking 1 tsp DoMatcha every morning. Then I had bariatric surgery and stopped drinking for 2 months.

I started again 2 days ago, and WAA LAA, swollen ankles!! I thought for SURE it was something else (I'm losing a lot of weight, and thought I might be retaining water).

I will stop drinking DoMatcha immediately to see if this is the cause.

And from the other comments, I'm afraid it might be! Wow, who would have thought green tea would be a problem!!!

That makes me really sad! I love green tea and was so hoping for its medical benefits to help me in my weight loss!!

Thanks to all who entered the information above. If you hadn't, I might not have made this connection myself!
Dec 08, 2011
 Jasmine Green Tea & Arthritis
by: Shawn

I have got Arthritis and started drinking very high quality Jasmine Pearl Tea. I have got severe pain in the last few days. I thought is was the tea but every article I found on web advised me that green tea is great for Arthritis.

That is all bunch of rubbish. Thank God I found this site. Now I am convinced it is the tea because I eat nothing but fruit, vegetable soup, and Salmon. All great for Arthritis.

There is so much garbage on the web. Take care all.
Jan 09, 2012
 Foot Pain due to Geen Tea NEW
by: Anonymous

This is a definite condition, as my wife and I both experienced an increase in foot pain drinking green tea on a daily basis.

We were not sure why we had the pain at first, but finally stopped the tea, and over the course of a few days the pain subsided.

We normally drink black tea daily, and perhaps there is a substance saturation that the body is reacting to. We enjoy the green tea for its positive health effects, but for us the pain was unbearable.

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